-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 22:41:06 +0200 Anders Andersson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM Jay F. Shachter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > This is a very active mailing list. This is partly because there is > > an astonishingly large number of messages posted to it that are > > neither informative, nor entertaining, to, I would estimate, > > approximately 99% of its readership. > > False. > > > Second of all, and more to the point, publicly insulting people who > > post to this mailing list is not a productive use of your time, and -- > > even more to the point -- reading postings to this mailing list that > > publicly insult people who have made other postings to this mailing > > list, and that say nothing else, is not a productive use of my time. > > Your verbose and patronizing post has wasted more time (and bytes) > than the sum of all replies in the thread you mention - a thread > easily ignored by any competent email client, unless of course someone > starts a new thread on the same topic. > > > None of the other > > postings to this mailing list that were made in reply to the original > > posting contributed anything useful. > > I enjoyed them, that's useful. > > > Please remember that other people do not think that you are as clever > > as you think you are -- and this is true of everyone, even if you are > > Einstein or Goethe -- and even if you are as clever as you think you > > are, no one cares. > > With one exception apparently. > > ;-) Dhu -- Je suis Canadien: Ce n'est pas Francais ou Anglais, C'est une esp`ece de sauvage. Ne obliviscaris: vix ea nostra voco! *A mari ad mari ad mari* Duncan Patton a Campbell -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEARYKAB0WIQTKdleqECmr94McXWPR6f/NOjb3lQUCaP9FjgAKCRDR6f/NOjb3 larJAQCUZzKvKjpKhxlNsxIZXgYoFQ/xJkzHn/+xNPW1TCxKqgD/cvkhxshEjOk0 cx+cX5aKxVbdf0iDQ7WriF8MfyscJgA= =HM0d -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
